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Paul Tomkins
Goldilocks Zone: When Are LFC Better? More Or Less Rest?
Having recently talked about Liverpool’s ‘Goldilocks zone’ under Jürgen Klopp – my feeling of what kind of interlude between…
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Paul Tomkins
Happy New Year! But What’s Going Wrong At Liverpool?
Happy New Year! And here’s a festive freebie to begin 2021… What’s Going Wrong At Liverpool? Multiple choice: A) Nothing…
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Paul Tomkins
For ‘Twas the Christmas of the Fat-Headed Fergie Acolyte
Having just faced (and been dragged down by) the dogshitball of Sam Allardyce and his 11 defenders, Liverpool next…
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Paul Tomkins
Kloppy Christmas, Some LFC Thoughts, And A Dark Night’s Tale
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 70 commentsThis is a festive roundup, with some good wishes and a few stories (some off-topic), as Christmas rolls around…
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Paul Tomkins
Why Klopp Is The Undisputed Global Master
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 47 commentsJürgen Klopp, voted the world’s best manager for the second year in succession, ended the week in which his…
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Paul Tomkins
Just For The Record, It’s Time Again To Sack Klopp
First published in December 2020 Three years ago (or, at a similar stage of the 2017/18 season, given that…
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Andrew Beasley
Ranking the Reds’ Premier League Seasons, Worst to Best: #2 – 2000/01
#2 – 2000/01 A note from Paul Tomkins: Ranking the Reds’ Premier League Seasons, Worst to Best, should really mean…
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Paul Tomkins
Reds’ Young Guns Are Having Some Fun
Reds’ Young Guns Are Having Some Fun Young Guns (Go For It) Every ten years or so I start…
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Paul Tomkins
Another New LFC Book! The Tomkins Times Quarterly, Issue One, Out Now
Not content with releasing Mentality Monsters in 2019 and Perched in 2020, I’m releasing another Liverpool FC book –…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool FC’s Bevy of Black Swans, and the Luck of Murphy’s Law
This is a piece that will appear on our mailing list Substack for free on Friday evening, having first…
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Paul Tomkins
Tomkins Rants; Tomkins’ Head Explodes; Fuck The PGMOL
Four big decisions went against Liverpool in this single game (in a season of bizarre big decisions going against…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool Reserves Losing a Game to Italians is No Big Deal
It amazes me that people still fail to understand the importance of “team wavelength”, often fetishising individuals but not…
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Paul Tomkins
When I’m 64 (Unbeaten) – Liverpool Pummel Leicester (Free Read)
For the third game running, Liverpool absolutely mullered Leicester on xG, with Sky showing the Reds’ two best ‘expected…
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Paul Tomkins
Jota Is The New Star, But Don’t Write Off Takumi Minamino
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 17 commentsDiogo Jota, like Sadio Mané, Virgil van Dijk, Alisson and Mo Salah before him, has slotted seamlessly into this…
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Andrew Beasley
Unravelled – the Rich and Varied DNA of Liverpool’s Goals
in By Andrew Beasley, By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only, The DNA of Liverpool's Goals / / 10 commentsIntro by Paul Tomkins Halfway through last season I had the idea of creating a DNA database of Liverpool’s…
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Paul Tomkins
A Very Good Point at City. And Why the League Table Is Lying
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 60 commentsAfter an outstanding first half which featured the usual preposterous VAR decision against the depleted Reds, it was a…
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Paul Tomkins
Diogo Jota Is Like A Wide-Starting Fernando Torres
in By Paul Tomkins, Free / / 20 commentsWhen watching Diogo Jota the other week – so even before the hat-trick tonight in the 5-0 away thumping…
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Paul Tomkins
BIG NEWS! Updates For TTT Subscribers
After two weeks of semi-sabbatical, I’ve been able to relax more than usual (so far so good!), but I’ve…
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Paul Tomkins
Patched-Up VAR-Battered Liverpool 3 Points Clear At The Top
in By Paul Tomkins, Subscribers Only / / 38 commentsWith half a dozen world-class/top-class players out injured or ill (and a total of 12 internationals missing some or…
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Paul Tomkins
Liverpool 2 VAR 1 (Plus Very Important Site News for Subscribers)
Charged a fortune to watch a game in a soullessly empty Anfield, attempting to be ruined by amateurish buffoons…
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Paul Tomkins
Postcards From Obscurity – Tomkins In Exile As Reds Beat Ajax
Okay, so taking a total hiatus from writing about Liverpool isn’t so easy when the big games come thick…
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Paul Tomkins
Phantom Offsides and the Subjectivity of a Man as Blind as a Coot
While I’m taking some time off from the daily running, moderating, admin and interacting on this site, the urge…
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Paul Tomkins
Site News For TTT Subscribers
in By Paul Tomkins, Site News / / 60 commentsI discussed this on the Site News debate thread yesterday, but thought it was worth creating an actual article…
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Paul Tomkins
Deleted Chapter From “Perched”: How Liverpool Became United, And United Became Divided
What follows below is a chapter from Perched: Jürgen Klopp’s Liverpool FC – Champions Of Everything, written in late…
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Paul Tomkins
Martin Atkinson’s Bias Against Liverpool – It’s In The Stats And Anecdotes
On TTT we focus a fair bit on referees – and in particular the issue of penalties, as it’s…